Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
beginning
Usage: 1) beginning, first 1a) the first time 1b) from the beginning, in the beginning (with prep)
Techillah means “commencement” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H8462 תְּחִלָּה (tchillah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. tchillah (tekh-il-law') n-f. 1. a commencement 2. rel. original (adverb, -ly) It has 21 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include first, beginning, and begin. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
tchillah (tekh-il-law') n-f. 1. a commencement 2. rel. original (adverb, -ly) [from H2490 in the sense of opening] KJV: begin(-ning), first (time). Root(s): H2490
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beginning
Usage: 1) beginning, first 1a) the first time 1b) from the beginning, in the beginning (with prep)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render tchillah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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21 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;
And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.
First 21 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H8462.
And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;
And when they had eaten them up, it could not be known that they had eaten them; but they were still ill favoured, as at the beginning. So I awoke.
And the men were afraid, because they were brought into Joseph's house; and they said, Because of the money that was returned in our sacks at the first time are we brought in; that he may seek occasion against us, and fall upon us, and take us for bondmen, and our asses.
And said, O sir, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:
Now after the death of Joshua it came to pass, that the children of Israel asked the LORD, saying, Who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first, to fight against them?
And the children of Israel arose, and went up to the house of God, and asked counsel of God, and said, Which of us shall go up first to the battle against the children of Benjamin? And the LORD said, Judah shall go up first.
So Naomi returned, and Ruth the Moabitess, her daughter in law, with her, which returned out of the country of Moab: and they came to Bethlehem in the beginning of barley harvest.
Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.
And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them in the hill before the LORD: and they fell all seven together, and were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, in the beginning of barley harvest.
And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.
And so it was at the beginning of their dwelling there, that they feared not the LORD: therefore the LORD sent lions among them, which slew some of them.
And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they unto him an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.
And Mattaniah the son of Micha, the son of Zabdi, the son of Asaph, was the principal to begin the thanksgiving in prayer: and Bakbukiah the second among his brethren, and Abda the son of Shammua, the son of Galal, the son of Jeduthun.
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.
And I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called, The city of righteousness, the faithful city.
In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first.
Yea, whiles I was speaking in prayer, even the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision at the beginning, being caused to fly swiftly, touched me about the time of the evening oblation.
At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.
The beginning of the word of the LORD by Hosea. And the LORD said to Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredoms and children of whoredoms: for the land hath committed great whoredom, departing from the LORD.
Thus hath the Lord GOD shewed unto me; and, behold, he formed grasshoppers in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth; and, lo, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.
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Techillah (Strong's H8462) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "commencement". tchillah (tekh-il-law') n-f. 1. a commencement 2. rel. original (adverb, -ly)
This page currently indexes 21 linked usages for Strong's H8462 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H8462 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as first, beginning, and begin. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.